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Jay Som

Members

Melina Duterte
Oliver Pinnell
Zachary Elsasser
Dylan Allard

Jay Som

JaySom is the performance pseudonym of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Melina Duterte. The California Bay Area native creates lush, melodic bedroom pop remindful of contemporaries like Alex G and Long Beard. She began writing and sharing music on MySpace while in middle school, cycling through various monikers over time until she eventually settled on the name JaySom. It was created with the Wu-Tang Names Generator (the same website that turned Donald Glover into Childish Gambino). Duterte posted a series of singles under the name to music-sharing site Bandcamp in the early 2010s before releasing "a collection of finished and unfinished songs" called Turn Into, which was co-released on cassette by Wave Dweller and Topshelf Records.JaySom was soon signed to Polyvinyl, which reissued the set in July 2016 as she began work on an official debut. In the meantime, she toured the U.S. and Canada in support of indie artists such as Mitski and Peter Bjorn and John.